Pnp and PCI Modems

[Barry Fawthrop]

Hi
Does anyone know if Pnp and PCI modems are supported under 4.2-RELEASE ??

I have a laptop with an Actiontec Modem Win 98 detects it as an PCI device
and loads it as COM-3, How can I get FreeBSD to do it.

Thanks
Barry

[bru...@realtime.net]

In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Barry Fawthrop <br...@hotmail.com> wrote:
:
: Does anyone know if Pnp and PCI modems are supported under 4.2-RELEASE ??
:
Short answer: it depends. :-(
:
: I have a laptop with an Actiontec Modem Win 98 detects it as an PCI device

: and loads it as COM-3, How can I get FreeBSD to do it.

:
If your modem is a dreaded "win modem", which needs the
CPU to run it, you may be out of luck. Lucent has recently
released a Linux win modem driver for their chips, but I don't
believe that driver will work on FreeBSD, due to kernel differences.
And, I don't believe they released the source, so porting the
Linux driver will be a tad, umm, tricky... :-)

You may be best off getting a PCMCIA modem card (look
at /etc/defaults/pccard.conf for the supported modems) and go
from there.

Bruce
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[Barry Fawthrop]

I'm sure if it is a win modem or not

<bru...@realtime.net> wrote in message

> If your modem is a dreaded "win modem", which needs the CPU to run it,

I'm not sure if it is a win modem or not ?? how do I check this out ??

I can see that COM 3 is available but it will not connect to it ??
Barry